Elena Costs County $15,000

September 6, 1985

SANFORD — Seminole County spent about $15,000 preparing last weekend for Hurricane Elena.

Harry Pinkman, county disaster preparedness director, said the county rented several portable generators, chain saws, backhoes and axes for debris removal. County records show the costs were about $2,000.

Medical supplies, which the county will keep and should have had anyway, cost about $3,900, Pinkman said.

Other operating costs went for making copies of map books and maps noting the schools where evacuees from the west coast were to be sent.

The $6,100 for supplies did not include overtime for the estimated 85 public safety staffers that worked through the weekend. Overtime raised the weekend cost to about $15,000, he said.

Overtime cost figures for public works personnel, who also worked through the Labor Day weekend, were not available.